2 new exhibitions and the 3rd edition of Books & Others

Fondazione ICA #milano presents, from Friday, 29th September to Saturday, 25th November 2023, the 
exhibition #jusdorange, featuring artist #camillehenrot (France, 1978) and writer and art critic Estelle 
Hoy (Australia, 1983). In #jusdorange, words and images run after the themes of melancholy, failure, 
injustice, and hope in a unique exhibition display conceived specifically for the first floor of Fondazione 
ICA #milano in the shape of a kaleidoscopic installation. Back and forth, to-and-fro, text and image inspire 
one another—ongoing and unending—intoxicated by life’s many interferences.
The exhibition is realised by the artists in collaboration with #fondazioneicamilano and is curated by 
Chiara Nuzzi. The show creates a path of mutual and continual contamination emerging from a dialogue 
between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, amalgamated through dense, examining 
conversation between the artists.
Jus d’Orange presents a selection of new paintings by Henrot inspired by Hoy’s texts and vice versa, the 
result of over five hundred images and thousands of messages that the artists, united by deep 
friendship, have exchanged via WhatsApp, Instagram, shared Google Docs, voice messages, and live 
conversations since late 2021.
The collaboration takes as its starting point Estelle Hoy's text Venetian Waters of #jusdorange, inspired 
by the circumstance of a friend of the artist witnessing the collapse of the roof of her home after 
numerous sacrifices made over the years to buy it. The themes of failure and hope, represented by the 
cultivation of an orange grove on the ruins of the destroyed house, inspired Henrot to create a series 
of watercolours and paintings on canvas, including A Thrill or a Spill (2022); Cool Nights (2022); A 
Mountain of Oranges(2023); Fruitful Labor (2023), and constitute the starting point of an uninterrupted 
dialogue between the two artists. From literature they read to lived experiences, from exhibitions 
visited to psychoanalytic theories, from current social issues to dreams and personal aspirations, 
Camille Henrot and #estellehoy create an intimate journey.
The exhibition design sees Hoy's texts framing Henrot's paintings in a graphic layout by La Tigre, creating 
a coherent and continuous flow that traces the conversation between the two artists.
Pivotal to the textual and visual narrations is the artists’ reflection on the humorous implications of the 
depicted subjects. The figures captured on Henrot's canvases meet Hoy's sharp and prophetic words in 
a game of cross-references where humor is vital and where each work dialogues with the next, opening 
up individual and collective readings within the space. The atmosphere of intimacy that characterizes 
the exhibition is further accentuated by a moment of sharing, represented by the fortune cookies 
offered to the public that carry unconventional and prophetic messages referring to the show’s playful 
and irrational component.
The exhibition is enriched by a dedicated artist book co-published by Fondazione and NERO, available 
on the publisher's website or for purchase at ICA #milano in Via Orobia 26 in a limited number of copies.
The art direction for the exhibition design is realized by La Tigre; design: Lidia Ginga Cozzupoli.
The exhibition #jusdorange and the accompanying publication are realised with the support of:
Hauser & Wirth and Mennour, Paris, Beatrice Bulgari, Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, MaFo 
Collection, Daniela Memmo, Carlo and Polissena Perrone; Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati.

From Friday 29 September to Saturday 25 November 2023, #fondazioneicamilano presents
Euforia, a solo show by Brazilian artist #ledacatunda (São Paulo, 1961). The exhibition, curated by
Alberto Salvadori, builds the impression of the contemporary era, crossed by continuous
uncertainties and tensions, which the artist is called to interpret.
Leda Catunda's research is rooted in a visual lexicon that oscillates between mass culture and
craftsmanship. The artist's works are characterized by a strongly manual approach that result in
true sculptural installations where colors, materials and forms are combined to narrate our
current society from the artist’s perspective.
Leda Catunda explains, "It seems that the most appropriate choice for an artist is to continue to tell
the story of his own era through his works. As it has always happened, quite naturally: every art
form and every artist, even in the uncertainty of intention at the moment of creation, makes his or
her contribution by nurturing a shared memory, witnessing and documenting the yearnings and
desires of his or her time."
The exhibition project conceived for #euforia takes off from the work Gotas transparentes
(Transparent Drops), created during the period of isolation due to the 2020-2021 global pandemic.
Conceived specifically for the spaces of the Fondazione, the piece took shape in a historical
moment marked by waiting and suspended time. The witness of such a specific historical condition
is mixed with the hope of an ideal future, tinged with green, red and golden atmospheres, and is
permeated with the euphoria that gives the exhibition its title.
In the bright spaces of #fondazioneicamilano, Gotas transparentes extends beyond its limits by
casting colorful shadows on the space and on the other works in the exhibition, giving the

impression of an immense collage. The saturated colors and strong tones take the visitor through a
path based on emotions and memories, where each sculptural installation is conceived to narrate a
fragment of collective memory intertwined with the desire to imagine a future filled with
expectations.
We thank Fortes D`Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro and Bortolami, New York for their
generous support of the project.
We thank Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, the official sponsor of the Foundation, for supporting Fondazione
ICA Milano's programming and activities.